I encourage potential buyers to watch videos, read reviews, read forums, etc. BEFORE you purchase any brand of camera system. I keep reading about too many people being disappointed with their purchase because their expectations and assumptions were not met. In essence, they did their homework after the purchase instead of before the purchase. This disappointment is across all brands and not just limited to Blink. Do your homework!

Whilst I totality agree it is essential to research your intended purchases it can be very difficult to ensure the material is correct. Google is a vast resource not all of which is true or up to date, so a lot of searches will return outdated information that is incorrect. Even trying to establish the date of an article can be difficult.

This is an example where the link is as of today, but the article is actually dated 24 April 2018, almost 5 months ago and the information is now incorrect.

Blink XT works with both iOS 9.3 or higher and the Android app 4.4 or higher.

No longer the case

One feature many cameras are offering now is a temperature sensor, and Blink has followed suit.

– This feature is still in Beta and has not been finalised.

The XT is part of the overall Blink home security system.

No longer a System - Camera Only

The most important is the OS, It no longer supports iOS 9 and Android 4.4 (KitKat). Now requires iOS 10.3 or Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and later. The others are to highlight the difficulties of research on the internet.

But the article was correct when it was written? The date is right at the top.

Edit: never mind, in April 2018 the seecurity system had been a no-show for over a year. So that was just wrong when it was written. But any article can become outdated unless it’s retracted or something when the information becomes obsolete, which seems unlikely for most websites.

This is why I said do your homework via multiple sources. I agree you can’t rely on just google searches that lead to outdated articles. YouTube videos, Facebook, and this community forum is what I used before I purchased.

The worst thing I watched was an entire hour of advertisement for Blink when QVC was selling it. I watched the QVC gig a few months after I purchased. It confirmed my suspicion that QVC was not making false statements in their presentation. However the info was very misleading IF you made assumptions and didn’t know any better. Sadly most buyers make assumptions at time of purchase. This has become obvious via the various complaints in this community forum.